Upcoming events
Forest Time III | Saturday Morning Storytelling in Gateshead RRiverside Park
Have you visit Gateshead Riverside Park yet? This urban forest along the River Tyne has wonderful stories hidden between the trees on the Rabbit Banks.
Join this free storytelling workshops on Saturday morning, 09 December 2023.
Learn how to shift your perspective to forest time, and create a story together with each other and the forest itself.
Forest Time II | Friday Morning Storytelling in Gateshead RRiverside Park
Have you met Gateshead Riverside Park before? This urban forest along the River Tyne has wonderful stories hidden between the trees on the Rabbit Banks.
Join this free storytelling workshops on Friday morning, 08 December 2023.
Learn how to shift your perspective to forest time, and create a story together with each other and the forest itself.
WFUF 2023 workshop | Tree Tales
Share your thoughts, ideas and experiences with urban forests in this collaborative place-based storytelling session. Through questions and exercises like walking, writing, drawing and picture taking, we will explore what urban forests mean to us, how we experience a sense of belonging in the urban forest of Washington D.C., and what we would change to increase our sense of belonging.
workshop series | Who belongs in the Urban Forest?
Who has access to a forgotten urban forest like the Riverside Park? Do children play here, do people walk their dogs, or are humans only passing through on their bikes to the Newcastle city centre? And what about the forest itself: which trees, plants and animals live here? Are there other creatures hidden between the leaves and roots on the Rabbit Banks?
MSA 2023 workshop | Sharing Urban Forest Stories
Share your thoughts, ideas and experiences with urban forests in this collaborative place-based storytelling session. Through questions and exercises like walking, writing, drawing and picture taking, we will explore what the urban forest in Newcastle means to us, how we feel about it, and what we would like to change about it to increase our sense of belonging.
EFUF 2023 workshop | Sharing Urban Forest Stories
Share your urban forest thoughts, ideas and experiences in this collaborative place-based storytelling session. Through questions and exercises like writing, drawing and picture taking, we will explore what the urban forest in Kraków means to us, how we feel about it, and what we would like to change about it to increase our sense of belonging.
NCAN Green Space
In this NCAN Green Space session,Lotte Dijkstra will talk about the use of storytelling as a method for intersectional environmentalism. How can we use collaborative storytelling to explore equitable access to urban forest places across communities? And how can place-based narratives help connect us to nature and our non-human kin close to home?
The Wild Escape: Back to Nature
“The Wild Escape: Back to Nature” stitches together the epic collective artwork produced by primary school children of the North East. On 22 April, Earth Day, storyteller and landscape researcher Lotte Dijkstra takes you on a journey to a surprisingly closeby natural place, together with the animals drawn by the children.
Monster Mates II
Join for a night of myth, magic, monsters and getting in touch with nature. Craft your own Monster Mate and find out where in Newcastle and Gateshead we can find these mythical creatures.
Monster Mates I
Newcastle and Gateshead are filled with mythical creatures, but the local monsters and beasts of Newcastle and Gateshead are good at hiding in plain sight. What does their monstrous life look like? Where and how do they live?